into second place. sinn fein president michelle o neill says it s a new era in northern ireland and that there should be no timewasting or excuses , as she put it, in coperating to bring back the assembly. annita mcveigh is at stormont for us now over to you. hello, thank you very much. welcome to stormont, home of the northern ireland assembly and it is a beautiful day here in belfast and the dog walkers and the joggers are out in force but the going question for today after those elections is what happens next and when will politicians get back to a power sharing government here, what will it take to achieve that. looking at the results, the final two results came in around 1am after that long count at three centres across northern ireland and a majority, around two thirds of the politicians who were voted in it say
claimed the most seats and pushed the democratic unionist party into second place. sinn fein president michelle o neill says it s a new era in northern ireland and that there should be no timewasting or excuses , as she put it, in coperating to bring back the assembly. annita mcveigh is at stormont for us now. joanna, thank you very much. a beautiful day at stormont with lots of questions after the count and 90 mlas returned to the northern ireland assembly, which sits here and as to what happens next and to get them back to power sharing government in this building behind me. of course, the government here collapsed effectively back in february when the dup removed itself from the position of first minister, over its opposition to the protocol. the protocol has not changed as far as they are concerned, their opposition to it remains and they
is that hyperbole or will it come to that? we re talking about the inherent contempt power. we re going to get our subpoenas. year going it get the evidence and the documents that we have requested. and that s our right. now it looks like the courts are can coming through. so far we re winning in the courts and the courts are saying of course you ve got to turn over these documents that have been subpoenaed by the house of representatives. there s no executive immunity. but we ve got the power to do it. let s talk about the house judiciary committee issuing subpoenas to communications director hope hicks and amy donaldson today. do you think the white house will tell them not to comply as well? the president has essentially ordered all his subordinates to stop coperating with congress.
connection with two dry ice bombs at the park. 22-year-old christian barnes is being held on $500,000 bail. disneyland s toon-town was evacuated tuesday. the bomb squad there to investigate. no one was hurt. no damage reported. prosecutors have not commented on a motive. he was manning a vending cart. somebody came to relieve him. he opened the cart one of the bottles exploded. he then took a second bottle on the way to the break room he dropped the second bottle off in another in a trash receptacle. a kid that wouldn t hurt anyone. whatever happened it wasn t to hurt anyone. to do anything harmful. detectives in anaheim say barnes is coperating with the investigation. barnes admittedly told them that it was an isolated act and didn t realize the impact. the head of mcdonald s set off a controversy claiming he has lost 20 pounds while still eating mickey ds every single day. don thompson admits he started working out again. but hasn t changed his eating habits. or so he says.